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The new Interactive Chart tool lets you create popular chart types to visualize data in your workflow. The chart generated by the tool can be added to a report using the Visual Layout tool, output as different file types using the Render tool, or published to a dashboard using the Insight tool. The Interactive Chart tool replaces the existing Charting tool, which has been deprecated. Workflows that use the Charting tool will still be able to function, but Alteryx recommends updating workflows to use the new Interactive Chart tool.

The new Insight tool lets you create interactive dashboards to use to gain deeper insights into your data. You can create and arrange multiple charts and text elements on the dashboard, create filters for viewing specific data, and create drilldowns to let you change the detail level of data displayed. When you use the filters and drilldowns to view data, all related charts in the insight dynamically update. The insight can be published to a Gallery for others to view.

The new Python tool with Jupyter Notebook integration is an embedded IDE that allows you to run Python code directly in Alteryx Designer.

There was an overall style update to the widgets and SDK which included the removal of some custom styles to default HTML elements.

Additional Enhancements

Users are now able to activate Alteryx products offline from behind a firewall by using Alteryx License Server. Alteryx License Server is an additional licensing product that can be installed locally by an organization's license administrator and used in addition to or alongside the standard Alteryx licensing system. Since the license keys are activated on the license server itself, users can activate offline and without having to use a license key.

You can use Windows Authentication with Connect assets.

You can set a cache point at any location in a workflow to temporarily store data processed up to that point. Right-click any tool with a single output anchor and select the option to cache and run the workflow. Subsequent runs will start from the cache point instead of rerunning from the beginning of the workflow.

While saving a workflow to Alteryx Server Private Gallery, you can assign the workflow to run on a specific worker, if you have been given worker assignment permission.

You can now access the beta version of Alteryx Designer 2018.3 in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Coming soon: The online Alteryx Designer Help will also be available in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese by pressing F1 or clicking the Help link in Alteryx Designer.

The tool configuration windows for the Sample tool and the Text to Column tool have been enhanced.

The Salesforce, Marketo, and Google Analytics tools are now being deployed via the Gallery. This change will not affect any previously built workflows that utilize these tools.

Fixed and Known Issues

Fixed

Major Release Version 2018.3.4.51585

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE9493

The code used to calculate the percentage of the data to sample in the Forest Model tool has been modified.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE9631

An issue where the grouping variable in the Survival Analysis tool only accepted the first column has been resolved.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE9852

An error occurring in the Simulation Sampling tool when using triangular distribution has been resoolved.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE10429

The Linear Regression tool no longer fails when a target value is missing.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE11603

An issue with Bernoulli boosted models binary responses has been fixed.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE11733

An issue causing the Boosted Model tool to show a plot error has been fixed.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE11933

Time Series Plot tool indices are now accurate and no longer default to January 8.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE12211

Definitions of the Amersfoor New RD projection have been corrected.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE12599

A Redshift Bulk Load field mapping issue that occurred when using the Append Existing by Name option has been fixed.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE13173

The SharePoint List Input and SharePoint List Output tools now support versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, which provides secure communications of information on the internet.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE13748

The code used to calculate the OOB estimate in the Forest Model tool has been modified to resolve a mismatch error.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE14273

An issue caused by missing fonts that occurred when using the Charting tool and Report Map tool has been resolved.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE14910

Narrow strings are now properly converted to UTF8, which is the format that Tableau expects.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE14998

Metadata that was hard-coded into the Score tool has been updated to send and receive correct metadata.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE15006

License expiration notifications no longer display once a trial license expires if a permanent license key has been activated.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE15100

Metadata that was hard-coded into the Score tool has been updated to send and receive correct metadata.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE15111

An error occurring in the K-Centroids Diagnostics tool has been resolved.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE15609

DataPreview no longer truncates decimal places when incoming FixedDecimal column is used in an expression.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE15638

Gallery links are no included in Global Search results.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE16043

An issue that rendered the Alteryx Designer API from .NET inoperable for Alteryx Designer 11.8, 2018.1 & 2018.2 has been fixed. New .NET DLLs that are now available must be copied to the appropriate folders. See Alteryx Developer Help for more information.

DE16081

An intermittent issue with buttons on the Formula tool not being clickable has been fixed.

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE16100

Both Lift Chart axes no correctly start at the standard origin of (0,0).

2018.3.4.51585

Fixed

DE16206

An issue that occured when reading .grd files with non-zero maximum values has been fixed.

Using data that includes a spatial object prevents charts from displaying in the Insight tool.

2018.2.6.512234

Known

DE16577

Wide charts created with the Interactive Chart tool may not show Y axis values until the chart has been output.

2018.2.6.512234

Known

DE16624

Double quotes used in any text field in the Interactive Chart tool do not render in the output.

2018.2.6.512234

Known

DE16629

The numeric values in an axis of a Box and Whisker chart may be out of sequence.

2018.2.6.512234

Known

DE16760

The Support Vector Machine tool has trouble recognizing and loading particular column types.

2018.2.6.512234

Known

DE17022

Modifying the page size in the Render tool does not work when outputing to Powerpoint.

2018.2.6.512234

Known

DE17159

Some areas of the Interactive Chart tool have not been localized and are available only in English.

2018.2.6.512234

Known

DE18069

An issue occurs when generating a License Request File from command line using the AlteryxActivateLicenseKeyCmd.exe command. To activate offline, you can still generate the License Request File from the Alteryx Offline Activation window in Alteryx. For help, visit the online help page Activate a License Offline, the community article How to License Alteryx, or watch a short video.